Cholera and measles outbreaks within Ukraine are anticipated, as water infrastructure continues to be damaged and increasing numbers of the elderly and people with disabilities flee Russia’s relentless attacks, writes _Biancah
Aid workers are preparing for the possibility of cholera and measles outbreaks within war-torn Ukraine, as water infrastructure continues to be damaged and increasing numbers of the elderly and people with disabilities fleeAustralian aid worker Nick Prince, who has been stationed in bordering Hungary to help co-ordinate the Red Cross public health response to the war, said the conflict was one of the most complex conflicts he had seen in his decades in international aid work.
“With this, there is no way to know how this is going to end. It’s this slow onset with all these peaks and troughs, but you can’t actually plan how to respond because it is so complex, and it can change.” “Seeing them come out now is an indicator for us that the wear and tear can just be slowly grinding [people] down. And that resilience is going.”accused Russia of committing war crimes in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in repeated and indiscriminate attacks on civilian neighbourhoods. Amnesty detailed the use of cluster bombs against civilians, documenting a litany of attacks including on a playground and on hundreds of people queuing for humanitarian aid.
The Australian Red Cross says about 5.8 million refugees have fled Ukraine for neighbouring countries since the war began. Another 7.7 million are displaced within Ukraine.
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